Microsoft picks up another ad company; Buys Rapt — Microsoft on Friday said it has acquired Rapt, a company that makes software to manage Web advertising yields. — In a statement, Microsoft said: … Rapt's technology will be wrapped into Microsoft's Atlas Publisher Suite, which was acquired in the aQuantive purchase.

Trend Micro falls victim to Web hack — It's not much fun when one of your security vendors falls to a Web attack. Infoworld reports that TrendMicro was a victim of a recent Web attack that used legit sites to deliver malware. — According to InfoWorld Trend Micro removed the infected pages from its Web site.

Is KickApps Next to Board AOL's Gravy Train? — While a lot of focus yesterday has been on the gobs of cash that Time Warner shareholders now have to fork over to social networking site Bebo, which was bought by its AOL division for $850 million in spite of low revenues …

Google Exec: Android Will Outsell iPhone — Google has not released sales predictions for devices based on its mobile operating system Android. But that doesn't stop Rich Miner, group manager for mobile platforms at the search giant, from being confident.

Google: CAPTCHAs aren't dead yet — CAPTCHAs, those fuzzy letters that are supposed to ensure you're a human when you register for an account, have been under fire of late, but Google says their demise is greatly exaggerated. — That's the takeaway from a post by Brad Stone in the New York Times Bits blog.

Microsoft Pitches Merger Vision To Yahoo at Meeting — Senior executives from Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. met Monday to discuss Microsoft's takeover offer for the Internet company, according to people familiar with the matter. — The meeting, the first since Microsoft …

Mac Mini Pro Mod — Hideo Takano has posted some pictures and information about his Mac Mini Pro mod. Actually, Hideo has been working on a series of Mac mini mods, but this one looks to be his masterpiece. He's basically turned the Mac mini into a miniature Mac Pro standing 3.28" wide by 7.8" tall by 6.5" deep.

One App at a Time — One week in, the most controversial aspect of the iPhone SDK seems to be the limitation that third-party apps can only run when frontmost — once the user goes back to the home screen or switches to another app, the frontmost app needs to quit.

Behold the strange allure of the Eee PC — Ever since Asustek launched its tiny, cheap Eee PC in October, I've had readers e-mailing me and colleagues stopping by my desk at work to ask if I'd tried one yet. The lure of a very small, hard-disk-free notebook computer that sells for less than $300 has a certain appeal.

iPhone Launches in Austria and Ireland — Apple and T-Mobile are now selling the iPhone in Austria. The iPhone is being sold for 399 euro (8GB) and 499 euro (16GB) with the following plans: — 39 euro/mo “Classic” - 3GB data / 1000 Minutes / free T-Mobile Wifi

AMD Shanghai won't get HyperTransport 3 — HyperTransport 3 which was once slated for AMD's Barcelona server processors seem to be delayed again on Shanghai until some time in 2009 when it finally arrives for the “Montreal” quad- and octal-core CPUs. According to page 21 of Mario Rivas' slides …

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